K2, as I put him to bed: "Sing jO jO (a lullaby) for me."
I start singing, and stop after a while.
K2: "Sing! Why have you stopped!"
Me: "But you are not sleeping."
K2: "I *am* sleeping. I slept long ago. You go on singing!"


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One of the sweetest sights I had last night... that of a loving father, reading a bedtime story to his young son ( Read more... )

Mother and father: We don't have enough children for the minimum number that the play place is charging us for.

K2, immediately: I know a couple of emergency children we can call.

A new phrase has now been coined!

Here he is, asleep, with his contingent of pandas around him.


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I love laughing and treasure every sudden gem that I come across. Here's a great one from the "middle" in the Deccan Herald of Tuesday, June 4, 2019, by Indu Suryanarayan, who decided to learn music at the then-recently-opened Ayyanar College of Music on Vani Vilas Road, Bangalore ( Read more... )

The Beatles

sang about unknown, everyday people in a song.

I travel with a lot of other people every day, and one thing that always worries me is, what happens when people fall asleep on the bus? What if they miss their stop, and wake up realizing that it's going to take quite a long time to get back to wherever they were going?


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Hair like corn-silk ( Read more... )

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When I'm gone...when my time is done..
Let me rest my weary head.


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I do not like the places ( Read more... )

She sleeps in exhaustion, my little one.


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